Director of ‘secretive’ scientific body placing cities into lockdown accused of hypocrisy

Oct 17, 2020

Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who called on Number 10 to reconsider the London-wide lockdown, described the JBC as “very, very opaque”. He told The Telegraph: “It’s all very well to say they all act in a secretive way … but we need to know who they are, what their background...

Meet James Golding, the man who has had cancer twice and been hit by a truck… but refuses to be beaten

Oct 17, 2020

Golding, who turned 40 in July, was meant to have retired from all that ultra-cycling nonsense by now. That race was supposed to be his swansong. After a decade spent raising money (over £3million in total, mainly for cancer charities), motivational speaking,...

Non-urgent surgeries cancelled in Nottingham as infections surge

Oct 17, 2020

It is understood patients isolating for three days prior to surgery will have their operations postponed, but those isolating for at least a week can still go ahead. The new measures are expected to be reviewed after a week. A spokesperson for Nottingham University...

Beating the cancer backlog is AI’s largest test yet

Oct 17, 2020

The radiologists were stumped. They had been staring at a mammogram for several minutes, and couldn’t work out what was wrong. They sent the scan on to an arbitrator radiologist who declared that it was clear. That’s when Mia, an artificial intelligence...

World ‘must act now’ over plight of Al Hol camp children, warn charities as winter comes

Oct 17, 2020

Mrs Jack-Henry spoke at length to officers from Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command about her daughter Nicole, after she travelled from her home in London to Iraq with her husband Hussein Ali and their children, five years ago. But she has heard nothing from...

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